“PASOK has made another blunder in the way it attempts to substantiate the category”
“The government will not prevent the justice from doing its job, but it will also not enter the realm of criminal populism or witch hunting. What the government will do is the road we took in the case of Mr. Triantopoulos. PASOK on the other hand, made one more blunder in the way it attempts to substantiate the category. His attitude, in addition to testifying to a deficiency, once again shows the opposition’s attempt to tooling the issue. It wasn’t the best day yesterday for PASOK. “
These remarks were made by the Vice President of the Government, Kostis Hatzidakisin a radio interview today on ERT’s first program, a question on PASOK’s proposal to set up a pre -trial committee for Tempi.
Mr Hatzidakis pointed out that Article 291 of the Criminal Code, cited by PASOK to substantiate the charge of a felony for ministers, It refers to dangerous interventions in the fixed track means and specializes in an attempt by any accused to damage the rail networks and the existence of deception. “That is, these defendant ministers should have been thinking” we are going to spoil the rail networks to kill people. Or at least, let these damage do and you are not bored, let people be killed, “he said.
“They made two censure suggestions, the first time for the editing and everything collapsed and the second time for the notorious wooden, and all collapsed. Let us learn in our country to deal with a tragedy, such as the Tempe tragedy, with the seriousness it needs. Not obviously to light the heart, but not in criminal populism and tooling, “the Deputy Prime Minister said.
To a question about the evaluation and permanence in the publicMr. Hatzidakis pointed out: “We are not in the 19th century and in the time of Klafthmonos Square. We are Greece of Europe and the 21st century. Concepts such as evaluation, meritocracy and accountability in public administration should be of great concern to us. The New Democracy as a whole, as well as the prime minister, will be placed in the face of the constitutional review. “
The Deputy Prime Minister also announced that initiatives, who will soon take the relevant ministries, would evaluate the health units by patients and evaluate education deeper. “These are not theories, it is our programmatic commitment to move forward in that direction,” he said.
He recalled that there have been several steps and from 2019 to date, about 1,000 civil servants have been fired for the reasons of deficiency. “What was considered and was taboo for many years, broke. In addition, those who get excellent are not 95% or more, as was done with the evaluation of SYRIZA. The percentages have fallen too much and the evaluation responds to the image the average person has for public administration. Which really has many very good employees and others who do not respond so well to their duties, “he noted. “And there are positive and negative consequences. There is the performance bonus given by meritocratic criteria. There are training seminars to improve the performance of employees. And we also have consequences such as dismissal, under the guarantees of the Constitution, “he added.
Referring to the meeting of the Government Economic Policy Council (KYSIP) on Monday, chaired by himself, Mr. Hatzidakis said that two issues were discussed:
– The short -term and medium -term design for road, rail, telecommunications and energy networks. “In the summer there will be the large submarine electric interconnection of Attica with Crete, which will also have a very positive effect on consumers in the sense that these interconnections limit HGIs to electricity accounts. Also, by 2026 the Cyclades electrical interconnection will be completed. By the end of the year, the Patras-Pyrgos road will end, early 2026 the expansion of the Thessaloniki Metro, in the spring of 2026 the E65 will be completed. The northern road ‘Axon of Crete is starting and by the fall of 2026, Daniel’s damage will be repaired on the Athens-Thessaloniki railway line.’
– The new EU budget for the period 2028-2034. “Member States are preparing and we need to run quickly so that we have significant reinforcement in the next programming period. The equation is the defense and competitiveness, two areas where there will be much more meaningful intervention on the EU. It should be ensured that this is not done on the damage of the common agricultural policy and cohesion policies. This is not automatic, nor self -evident. It will take effort and alliances. “
Finally, “the culmination of this negotiation will take place during the EU Greek Presidency in the second half of 2027. It is therefore an opportunity for the country provided that we will take advantage of it, because we will need political stability and reliability,” the Vice -President concluded.